so technology is put forward and believed by the public to be a budget panacea but it is not. the third point that should be made about appetite is -- i would go further and say we saw in this election at the presidential level and the congressional level went across party lines and effort to make candidates pay for expressing willingness to cut pentagon spending and had zero effect and the massive infusion of corporate contributions and political efforts which had close to a zero return on investment. if anyone can think of a counterexample we can talk about it in the q&a but bill mentioned the presidential campaign and you have a concerted effort in virginia to take out a senate candidate on the grounds that it would be harmful to the state defense industry. that didn't work. you have a concerted effort, also didn't work, across party lines and interesting in western michigan where you have a libertarian republican and a veteran running against him, a democrat who had no trouble getting reelected. ron and rand paul have not suffered elect corley in their communities in state